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Our conversation was warm and cordial, ... We talked about areas in which we can work together -- opportunities for bipartisan agreements that the American people expect of us.

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Dear Lord, maker of all miracles, I thank you for bringing me to this extraordinary moment in my life. And Al Gore, I thank you for making this miracle possible for me and breaking this barrier for the rest of America forever.

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There's a lot of personal and political controversy around this decision, but it just seems to me that this was a group of professionals, of health experts, who made a decision based on what's best for a women's health. Therefore, I support it.

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We ran aground on the question of Jim Sensenbrenner wanting to prevent states from issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens, ... There was just about unanimous rejection of that. When the president called Jim Sensenbrenner, it was my impression that he was going to ask him to hold that until next year. But Jim Sensenbrenner came back with more proposals.

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In fact, the cost of the private Medicare substitute plans, in the last few years, have gone up twice as much as Medicare itself has. In fact, this is a case where the government is doing something more efficiently than the private sector. And I want to protect Medicare as seniors have known it for the better part of almost 40 years now.

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How can we teach our children that every vote counts if we are not willing to make a good-faith effort to count every vote

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Al Gore is endorsing someone who has taken positions diametrically opposite of what Al Gore has supported in the past. He'll have to explain why he's supporting someone, I think, who will take this country backward, not forward.

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I love John Breaux, he's one of my best friends in the Senate. We've worked together in the New Democratic Movement, ... Frankly, I'd hate to see him go. He is just the kind of bridge-builder and great legislator that we need to stay in the Senate to make this work.

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If we're for middle-class tax increases, if we send a message of weakness and ambivalence on defense, if we go back to big government spending, if we're against trade and for protectionism -- which never created a job -- we don't deserve to run the country, ... Fox News Sunday.

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In the case of ground forces, which will take weeks to deploy should they be necessary, we should begin now to plan for the logistics of such a mission and to ensure that appropriate personnel are adequately trained.

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The Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood unless the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn.

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Is this a great country or what

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We're going to let the voters speak, ... There's no question John Kerry has gotten a bounce from his victories in Iowa and New Hampshire. But Iowa and New Hampshire -- great states, great people -- are not the country.

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We need the military, because of its extraordinary capabilities, to be ready to play a much more active role.

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There's clearly a Democratic dilemma, ... But while other Democrats are debating how to change the Bush tax cut, we're changing the debate entirely. Instead of just talking about what Bush has done, we are focusing on reforming the income tax system as a whole, ensuring fairness and integrity for middle-class taxpayers.

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The vote for president is essentially ending in a tie, ... That puts a special burden not just on Gov. Bush, but on all of us in Congress to work on a bipartisan basis and in a cooperative spirit.

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If this Administration doesn't show some economic leadership soon, the American Dream will be harder and harder for millions of Americans to realize.

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I know his record and I know his heart. I know him as a public servant and I know what it is like to sit with him around the dining room table, ... We have discussed, sometimes even debated policy issues. And we have shared private moments of prayer.

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The flood of announcements from the major oil companies of yet another reminder that Connecticut consumers are being overwhelmed by massive increases in the costs of heating their homes and driving their cars. They need precisely the kind of relief that the legislation I introduced in December would provide aa a payment to each low-income and middle-class household and taxpayer, funded by a one-time windfall profits tax, to help them pay for the staggering increases in energy costs from last winter to this one.

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We're not going to be able to meet the challenges that America faces today.

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Not only do you have to watch your own back in these vice presidential debates, you also have to watch the presidential candidate's too.

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His record here in Texas, it's been a bad one. Texas has the most toxic pollutants in the country. Houston, where I am this morning, now has the dirtiest air in America and it's affecting people's health.

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Bush's economic plan could fit on the back of a shampoo bottle 'cut taxes, increase spending, borrow, repeat.' If he keeps repeating that plan, he will surely endanger Social Security benefits and slow our economy to a halt, just when we need the most economic strength we can muster to fight and win the war against terrorism.

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Are we sitting back like couch potatoes and watching the systemic elimination of all the lines that separate the acceptable and the unacceptable in our culture

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In the Bush administration, the foxes are guarding the foxes, and the middle-class hens are getting plucked.

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